| Languages |
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| Arabic | |  | | Chinese |
| Family | | Afro-Asiatic / Semitic | | | | Family | | Sino-Tibetan, Sinitic |
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| Where it is (mainly) spoken | | Saudi Arabia, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco | | | | Where it is (mainly) spoken | | China, Taiwan, Singapore, ... |
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| How many native speakers | | 215 000 000 | | | | How many native speakers | | 1 140 000 000 |
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| Writing system | | Arabic alphabet | | | | Writing system | | Chinese characters |
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| How LinguistMail can help | | Numbers (popTest) | | | | How Linguistmail can help | | ChineseWithPatrick.com
Numbers (popTest) |
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| Textbooks | | Assimil
Colloquial (Levantine)
Colloquial (Egypt)
Colloquial (the Gulf and Saudi Arabia)
Hugo
Teach Yourself | | | | Textbooks | | 10 minutes a day
Colloquial
Hugo
Teach Yourself |
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| Dutch | | | | French |
| Family | | Indo-European, Germanic, Western | | | | Family | | Indo-European, Romance |
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| Where it is (mainly) spoken | | Netherland, Belgium | | | | Where it is (mainly) spoken | | France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland |
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| How many native speakers | | 20 500 000 | | | | How many native speakers | | 75 000 000 |
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| Writing system | | Latin alphabet +  | | | | Writing system | | Latin alphabet +  |
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| How LinguistMail can help | | DutchWithPatrick.com, Numbers (popTest) | | | | How Linguistmail can help | | FrenchWithPatrick.com
Numbers (popTest) |
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| Textbooks | | Assimil
Colloquial
Hugo
Teach Yourself | | | | Textbooks | | 10 minutes a day
Assimil
Colloquial
Hugo
Teach Yourself |
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| German | | | | Italian |
| Family | | Indo-European, Germanic, Western | | | | Family | | Indo-European, Romance |
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| Where it is (mainly) spoken | | Germany, Austria, Switzerland | | | | Where it is (mainly) spoken | | Italy, Switzerland |
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| How many native speakers | | 100 000 000 | | | | How many native speakers | | 60 000 000 |
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| Writing system | | Latin alphabet +  | | | | Writing system | | Latin alphabet +  |
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| How LinguistMail can help | | GermanWithPatrick.com
Numbers (popTest) | | | | How Linguistmail can help | | ItalianWithPatrick.com, Numbers (popTest) |
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| Textbooks | | 10 minutes a day
Assimil
Colloquial
Hugo
Teach Yourself | | | | Textbooks | | 10 minutes a day
Assimil
Colloquial
Hugo
Teach Yourself |
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| Japanese | | | | Portuguese |
| Family | | Independent | | | | Family | | Indo-European, Romance |
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| Where it is (mainly) spoken | | Japan | | | | Where it is (mainly) spoken | | Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, ... |
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| How many native speakers | | 125 000 000 | | | | How many native speakers | | 170 000 000 |
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| Writing system | | Chinese characters + 2 syllabic alphabets (hiragana and katakana) | | | | Writing system | | Latin alphabet +  |
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| How LinguistMail can help | | JapaneseWithPatrick.com, Alphabets (poster), numbers (popTest) | | | | How Linguistmail can help | | PortugueseWithPatrick.com
Numbers (popTest) |
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| Textbooks | | 10 minutes a day
Colloquial
Hugo
Teach Yourself | | | | Textbooks | | 10 minutes a day
Colloquial
Hugo
Teach Yourself |
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| Russian | | | | Spanish |
| Family | | Indo-European, Slavic, Eastern | | | | Family | | Indo-European, Romance |
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| Where it is (mainly) spoken | | Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, ... | | | | Where it is (mainly) spoken | | Spain, South America (except Brazil), Central America, Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico |
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| How many native speakers | | 150 000 000 | | | | How many native speakers | | 325 000 000 |
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| Writing system | | Cyrillic alphabet | | | | Writing system | | Latin alphabet +  |
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| How LinguistMail can help | | RussianWithPatrick.com
Numbers (popTest) | | | | How Linguistmail can help | | SpanishWithPatrick.com
Numbers (popTest) |
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| Textbooks | | 10 minutes a day
Colloquial
Hugo
Teach Yourself | | | | Textbooks | | 10 minutes a day
Assimil
Colloquial
Hugo
Teach Yourself |
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